POLITICS: Poll: Americans Hopeful on 2nd Bush Term

The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on President Bush's second term is based on telephone interviews with 1,000 adults from all states except Alaska and
Hawaii. The interviews were conducted Jan. 10-12 by Ipsos Public Affairs.

Results were weighted to represent the population by demographic factors such as age, sex, region and education.

No more than one time in 20 should chance variations in the sample cause the results to vary by more than 3 percentage points from the answers that
would be obtained if all Americans were polled.

You're kidding me right? 1,000 adults interspersed through the 48 continental? All you have to do is bring up a database containing die hard
Republicans and offset it with a couple to the contrary.....how many of those polled were of african descent, because 90% voted against Bush....This
is just another example of diluting the media with "biased fact." Great, NBC got ahold of it, so this piece of info is going to be taken more
seriously than it deserves.....

Furthermore I don't think this poll reflects approval for GW more than the apathy and naivety of the people...

If he were MY choice of president and i defended him from the rooftops It would be a little silly for me to do this and say i dont approve of the war.
It all goes together. You either like him or you dont, you approve or you dont. I listen to Matt Drudge Sunday nights for the fun of it. Matt is
an example of what im trying to say here. On one breath he says Bush is THE man and how lucky we are. Takes another breath and starts tearing down
the Patriot Act, cameras in cities, the inauguration and the expenses that go with it, Terror threats, airport security......You name it, he tears it
down.
Life doesnt quite work this way.
You cant have it both ways.

If he were MY choice of president and i defended him from the rooftops It would be a little silly for me to do this and say i dont approve of the war.
It all goes together. You either like him or you dont, you approve or you dont.
Life doesnt quite work this way.
You cant have it both ways.

You know that the quote was regarding the war on terror. Trying to make it sound like you must prefer Diet Pepsi because Bush does is just plain
silly.

Life does work that way, dg. If there were no compromise, there would be no society. We would be living in an autocratic world if that were the case.

Approval or non-approval is not the reason why alot of people voted for Bush again. Here's the scenario: One of the worst doctrines I think that
could've ever been put into play considering what America really stands for when people come here to be free, "Manifest Destiny-The Monroe
Doctrine" is cloaked by an offensive defense to the real America. Some in the world who see horrible things around them come to hate America for
what they are told by their parents, and by "American" actions both secretive and upfront. Some of these people end up with alot of money by
inheritance, good business, or by choosing a profession that if they get lucky will rake it in (the black market). The people who have all the money
bring weapons, etc. and give others without the money the option to fight instead of fall in the balance of what they have come to believe America
stands for. The way those with money entice volunteers for a "Jihad" is by coloring the war against America with the convictions of a religious
zealot. The outcome of this brainwashing to what Islam really stands for is fear with on offensive on both sides of the Pacific and Atlantic. Now
consider what would happen if Kerry were now president. Great things could happen that have nothing to do with war for the next 4 to 8 years.
Meanwhile, those who abuse their money and power to control become more powerful both politically and militarily, (show me a country whos political
leaders came into power this way and did not have some problem with a form of dictatorship afterward).

The way I see it I'd love for Kerry to be president right now if I didn't think give or take 5-15 years down the road that person who only wants one
nuclear weapon would get a hold of one and use it as dictators do. Sure, that could happen under Bush as well, but not near as likely a part of the
imagination (even when he has forced that kind of hand more quickly).

I'd like it if we were more like Switzerland. Nobody invades them primarily because they are a neutral country, (and likely because almost every
household has a military issued automatic weapon from mandatory service after highschool). The point to all this is the better of two evils was
probably the reason why people voted for Bush. Who knows exactly whether Kerry would've beaten him if there was an unbiased recount of every vote.
Overall I'd rather have a president who puts their foot down to the crap thrown around in the world. Even if I don't think we should be the worlds
police force, (especially not telling people in other countries what their values should be) are the people in the countries we are involved with
afterward not happier with their everyday lives? I hope I did not anger anyone with what I've said here but to clear up pieces of why Bush was voted
to stay in office while alot of what he's ordered in the last two years has been disapproved of by the general public. What groups get questioned by
the way that helped "polers" come up with those percentages? Anyone here been asked to take part in those? Not me.....

The US electorate effectively expressed its support for the war on Iraq by re-electing George W. Bush to a second term as president, Bush said,
calling the election an "accountability moment" for mistakes and misjudgments in the justification and execution of the war.

Bush jumped on a plane leaving wife Laura to possibly die at the White House(9/11/01).Bush out of contact with public for hours because Bush thinks
the President is more important than the people.

Bush wants to stuff trillions of dollars from the Social Security Trust Fund into the rich people's pockets on Wall Street because Bush thinks rich
people are more important than a fair deal for the American taxpayers.

The election campaign by Bush was one of extreme fear. How could anybody come away feeling positive about our future when a man who spoke mainly
about "terrests" and what they could do to the United States is going to regain leadership for another four years? Gloom may have risen from the
democrat side, but doom was the only thing that republicans pushed. Doom is what you will get.

So I guess I'm in the minority when I wake up in a cold sweat after having nightmares of a nuke going off in a major US city, or the countless
survival camp dreams I've had.
Is false hope better than no hope?

The consensus is Bush has left our borders totally open. We are at no hope at all of security. Bush doesn't want to stop the flow of illegals.
Terrorists can just walk right in with them. What does Bush care his presidency is about robbing the public blind. He just wants to make sure he's
safe so he can get away with stealing all he can. That's his legacy.

The consensus is Bush has left our borders totally open. We are at no hope at all of security. Bush doesn't want to stop the flow of illegals.
Terrorists can just walk right in with them. What does Bush care his presidency is about robbing the public blind. He just wants to make sure he's
safe so he can get away with stealing all he can. That's his legacy.

Bode Bliss

Answers my question, but certainly doesn't help with my nightmares.

I still have a shimmer of light however.... I always survive in all my dreams.

And I usually play a big role in the aftermath survival of whatever group I'm in.

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